English

Prepositional phrase

in two

1. (set phrase) Into two halves.
   • 1894, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, ch. 3:

     They carry a branch half a day, meaning to do great things with it, and then they snap it in two.

   • 1900, Andrew Lang, "The Twin Brothers" in The Grey Fairy Book:

     [I]f you can cleave it in two with one stroke of your sword, I will give you my daughter to wife.

   • 2011 Jan. 10, Alex Perry, "Can Sudan Split Without Falling Apart?," Time (retrieved 23 July 2014):

     [S]outherners are expected to vote overwhelmingly to carve Africa's biggest country in two.

Synonyms

• in half

References

• in two at OneLook Dictionary Search